Advertising device



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ADVERTISING DEVICE.

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J. H. B. PAGE.

ADVERTLSING DEVICE.

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Emma Feb. 10,192 0.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- JAMES H. B. PAGnoF VIDALIA, GEORGIA.

ADVERTISING DEVIGE. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed August 25, 1919. Serial No. 319,660.

. b all whom it may concern:

' provide a device of this character wherein the advertising matter iscarried upon a band and mechanism is provided for causing this band totravel so as to display the advertising thereon.

Afurther object is to provide a device of this character so constructedthat it may be readily placed. in any show window and in which theadvertising band may be of different'sizes so as to suit difi'eren-tsized show windows without altering or changing the mechanicalfeaturesfof the mechanism.

A further object is to provide a very simple, cheap, and easily operatedconstruction of this kind requiring but little power, and

in which the means for operating the display a band is entirelyconcealedfrom view.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein f-Figure 1 is a front elevation of an advertising device constructed inaccordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the construction illustrated inFig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the construc tion illustrated in. Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a detail. sectional view of the supporting base forthe shaft14; v

Fig. 5 is a sectional view onthe line 5- 5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that my device comprises amotor hous-.

ingdesignated 10 having therein a vertical shaft support carrying themain driving shaft for the display band, this housing, as

- illustrated, being made of thin, light metal and being somewhatconical or pyramidal in shape. It is formed at its base with anoutstanding flange 11 throu h which pointed screws 12 may pass, where ythe base may V be attachedto the'fioor of the show window. This housingprovided with a door-13 whereby access to the interior of the housingmay be had. Disposed within the housing is a vertical shaft 14: whichextends upward through the l top of the housing and which rests in avertical bearing member 15', this bearing mem her being hollow andprovided at its lower end with a scatter an anti-friction ball 15.

' The shaft 14 is rounded at its lower end and rests upon this ball 15so that theshaft may rotate with the least possible friction. Mountedupon the shaft by means of a set screw is a gear wheel 16 which isadapted to mesh with a pinion 17 carried by the shaft of the motor 18".This motor may be an electric motor or any other suitable motor, butitpreferably is an electric motor.

The shaft 14 extends above the top of the housing and carriesupon it acylindrical,

hollow, metallic roller 19 of thin sheet metalwhichis suitably connectedto the shaft at metal shall be concentric to the shaft. This shaft orroller is formed with a conical up per end 20 which may be formed of aplurality of sections of metal soldered together, or might be spun up.This roller at its lower end is formed with a flange 21 and between thecap 20 and the flange, the roller has a length of approximately 10"under a plurality of points so thatthe shell or ordinary circumstancesandthe roller has a diameter of about 6", though it may be of anysuitable diameter.

Coasting with the housing 10 is a second housing 21 also formed of thinsheet metal and having a base flange 22 for the purpose of attaching setscrews and at the top of this housing is a shaft 23 resting on a ball24' carried in a tubular bearing 25, and this shaft also carries upon itthe shell or roller 26 having a conical or pyramidal cap, the rollerbeing formed with a flange at its outer end. Operating over these tworollers is a traveling belt 27 upon which" advertisingmatter is placed.4

It will be understood that the roller 26 is idle, that is it is not adriving roller. The roller 19 is the driving roller.

It will be obvious that with the mechanism illustrated this display band27 may be caused to travel around the rollersf19 and 26 so as to displaythe advertising "matter thereon to the public. The band may "be of anysuitable dimensions and obviously of any desiredlength and thus it is aneasy matter to dispose it in any show window without regard to itslength, as the band' verydight, can be put in place at any timeand asquickly removed, and, because of the conical or pyramidal caps to therollers 19 and 26, it 1s an easy matter to remove a band or place a newone in position. The sign belt may be, made from 5 to long.

The advertising matter can be constantly changed by changing the beltsand without anything except a short stoppage .of the machinery. Thus,the advertising belts may be changed every day and new matter placedthereon. The belts may be made of any suitable material and it ISobvious that theybelt carried by said rollers,

may contain a variety of attractive and interesting matter.

While I have illustrated aform of my invention which I believe to bethoroughly effective in practice, I do not wish to be limited to theparticular construction illustrated, as the details of construction maybe changed in many ways without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

I claim An advertising device of the character described comprising two"disconnected base members, a bearing projectin from the-bottom of eachbase member, a s raft jou-rnaled at one end, .in each bearing, the 'freeend portions of said shafts projecting above said base, and a'rollercarried by and-surrounding the free end of each shaft, each of saidrollers having a conical end and an endless said belt being guided ontothe rollers by said conical ends.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflixmy signature.

' JAMES H. B. PAGE.

